Le roman a été publié aux États-Unis en 1968 puis traduit en français en 1970 sous le titre Le dieu-poisson (avant d'être réédité sous le titre Dagon : le dieu-poisson). Dagon est un roman d'horreur de genre Southern Gothic, écrit par le poète américain Fred Chappell.He is one of the two reigning monarch-gods of the Deep Ones, along his consort Mother Hydra.

The Deep Ones are a race of intelligent ocean-dwelling creatures, approximately human-shaped but with a fishy appearance. The beings first appeared in Lovecraft's novella The Shadow over Innsmouth, but were already hinted at in the early short story 'Dagon'. Le roman a été publié aux États-Unis en 1968 puis traduit en français en 1970 sous le titre Le dieu-poisson (avant d'être réédité sous le titre Dagon : le dieu-poisson). Father Dagon is a central deity of the Esoteric Order of Dagon based in the town of Innsmouth. The Deep Ones are creatures in the Cthulhu Mythos of H.

In The New York Times, it was praised as being 'of a very high order precise, dry elegance'. This early novel is one of the author's most widely read works. It was awarded the Best Foreign Book of the Year prize by the French Academy in 1972. Then, from mythological studies, we learn that, in ancient times, 'Dagon' was not the name of a fish-god at all. The novel is a psychological thriller with supernatural elements, attempting to tell a Cthulhu Mythos story as a psychologically realistic Southern Gothic novel. With that in mind, we could argue that besides Dagon - whos name is clearly Levantine -, Cthulhu may also be derived from this Near-Eastern fish-god conception.

Dagon is a novel by author Fred Chappell published in 1968.

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